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ALBUM

Yes, ALBUM was the Wordle answer on May 24, 2022 (Wordle #339).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈælbəm/[ˈæɫb̚m̩][ˈaɫb̚m̩]

Noun

A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.

“In his free time, he used to open his album and add new pictures to it.”

Noun

A collection, especially of literary items.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 24, 2022 (#339).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 24, 2022 (#339).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How ALBUM performs as a guess

ALBUM is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.1% of games, misses completely in 25.9%, and leaves about 259 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,886 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___M A in the 1st position and M in the 5th position A__U_ A in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _L__M L in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ALBUM.

First-turn measures

All four describe ALBUM used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.29 Entropy (bits)
259 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALBUM performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,886 Rank among openers
Opening with ALBUM left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,886 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
226
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
20%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
A L B U M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ALBUM in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ALBUM can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

614 answers
360 answers
175 answers
158 answers
137 answers
83 answers
65 answers
62 answers
58 answers
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31 answers
21 answers
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10 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for ALBUM; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

A1L1B3U1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

TRONE TARSE SNORE SILER TORSE CARNE

Strategy after playing ALBUM

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ALBUM.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALBUM:

26% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
15% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SNORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

25.9% →
TRONE 6.17 bits
15.2% →
TARSE 5.63 bits
7.4% →
SNORE 5.20 bits
6.7% →
SILER 4.88 bits
5.8% →
TARSE 4.82 bits
3.5% →
TORSE 5.27 bits
2.7% →
TRONE 5.06 bits
2.6% →
CARNE 4.54 bits
2.4% →
CRISE 4.66 bits
2.3% →
TRONE 4.94 bits

Research on ALBUM

Game-tree analysis and word research for ALBUM, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with ALBUM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,147 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,270 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ALBUHM.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ALBUM is a kind of medium or book.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ALBUM sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 105 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 77 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.1 of 5).

In a sentence

This is a good album.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I really like this album.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).